Bab 7: Chapter 07
Now he just had to lure a Monster or two into the trapped section of the field and find out just how effective the snares would be. Not wanting to get killed early on in the game (since it would waste his limited time in the game by forcing him to cross the fields a second time), Harry decided that he wasn't going to draw a stampede of Frenzy Boars like he normally would have. Instead, he targeted a single Boar and coaxed it into charging at him as he slowly lured it towards his trap field. He whooped and hollered as he egged the Monster on; excitement flowing through him as he lost all sense of time and reality for a moment.
The Frenzy Boar had just activated one of the snare traps when Harry's alarm went off, reminding him that he had chores waiting for him back in the real world, and he let out a groan.
He did not want to return to his wretched life with the Dursleys.
Grumbling under his breath about slave drivers and whiney whales disguised as pigs in suits, Harry shut off his alarm before he checked his snare trap and grinned to himself when he saw the struggling boar securely trapped. Pulling out his dagger, Harry carefully moved up behind the boar and stabbed it in the vulnerable spot at the back of the neck for the kill the moment he had a clear shot and the boar shattered in death. A small window immediately popped up with a summary of the Experience Points, a list of Items, and the small amount of Col he'd earned from the successful kill. After taking a moment to scan through the list, Harry closed out the window.
The nine year old then sighed and opened his Player Menu in order to log out so that he could start breakfast.
Harry frowned as he ran his finger down the available options and found the log out option missing. Knowing that his grasp of kanji wasn't all that good (though it was far better than it had been when he first joined the game during the Beta Test – thanks to the additional Japanese lessons he'd taken after the Beta Test had ended), Harry back tracked into the utility tools and toggled the written characters from kanji to romaji since the Romanized letters were much easier for him to muddle through. Once that was done, he quickly returned to the Player options and tried to log out a second time; only when the last Menu opened he found that the log out option was still not there.
A brief check of the time showed that he still had ten minutes before his aunt would be downstairs to wake him up in order to start breakfast and he quickly attempted to call a Game Moderator (GM) in order to report the bug. When he was unable to connect to a GM, Harry tried to quell the growing panic he was feeling. He knew that there was bound to be glitches in the newly released game and knew that the bug would be taken care of as soon as they isolated the problem and applied the fix. The problem was that he only had three more minutes until his aunt would be expecting him to wake up in order to make breakfast.
If he didn't get up first, she would open the door to check on him and the moment she saw him wearing the Nerve Gear; she'd screech for his uncle who would then learn that he'd been the one to steal Dudley's gaming equipment out of the trash (the child completely unaware that his magic had taken measures to protect him from just such a situation).
Terror gripped the nine year old and he began hyperventilating as the mere thought of being discovered as a thief sent his imagination into overtime as his mind replayed all of the threats that his uncle had given to him through the years. If he didn't log out right this minute, he was as good as dead and he'd never again have the opportunity to return to the world that had become his home. Simulated tears began slipping down his face as his personal clock registered six thirty-two and he still was unable to log out. Pressing his hands over his mouth, stared at the game Menu without seeing it as realization set in; his uncle was going to kill him.
Ten minutes later, when the log out option still hadn't been restored, Harry let out a scream of pure frustration mixed with sheer terror.
Numbness set in when seven o'clock (or three o'clock Tokyo/Game Time) rolled around and he was still trapped within the game. Confusion soon followed as it slowly dawned on him that no one had forcefully removed the Nerve Gear from his head in order to force him to return to reality despite the fact that another half an hour had passed. Fear soon returned as he began to suspect that the only reason the Dursleys hadn't forcefully pulled him from the game was because they were waiting to see how long it took him to exit on his own. And the longer he remained in game, the harsher his punishment was going to be.
He was really going to die.
The numbness returned when the clock displayed the time as eight-fifteen (or four-fifteen Tokyo/Game Time). He was now well over an hour and a half late and the log out option had still not been repaired. Overwhelmed by the knowledge that his life had been ruined by a glitch in the game, Harry blindly made his way back towards Hajimari no Machi. It took him well over an hour to cross the fields he'd sprinted through earlier; the disguised nine year old traveling at a snail's pace as his mind focused firmly on what he believed was his pending death. He was just passing the same pair of men he'd seen earlier when they discovered the bug that had ruined Harry's entire life and the red-headed man's yells pulled Harry out of his daze.
"Return! Log out! Escape!*"
Harry stopped and watched the man's antics for several minutes; most of his words (bar the first few) not making any sense to Harry because the man was speaking Japanese so fast that Harry couldn't understand him. The brunette on the other hand was trying to stay calm but Harry could see the man's eyes reflecting the concern that had gripped Harry when he'd first discovered the missing log out option. He had just shaken himself out of his stupor and prepared to continue walking when the brunette asked the redhead a question that immediately drew Harry's attention back to their conversation as he picked up more than a few familiar words.
"Don't you think it's weird?*"
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